Tuesday, October 29, 2013

LOS ANGELES, October 29, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fact that California Governor Jerry Brown is arguably the most pro-abortion legislator in the country did not stop Catholic officials in Los Angeles from praising him in a glowing front page story in the archdiocesan publication.

Archbishop José Gómez personally appeared at the podium before Governor Brown signed a bill (A.B. 60) granting illegal immigrants the right to hold drivers licenses.

A photograph of the October 3 signing ceremony at Los Angeles City Hall, featuring Governor Brown, graced the issue of The Tidings, the archdiocese's official weekly.

Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, who has a 100 percent voting record from Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice California, and California Abortion and Reproductive Rights League, including on A.B. 154; and

California Catholic Daily criticized the praising of abortion supporters for their unrelated policy decisions as a “pact with the devil.” The writer likened the archbishop's actions to “German bishops turning out to join Adolf Hitler to open autobahns and Volkswagen factories and then publishing pictures of the events in their diocesan papers so all the Catholics would know that they should vote for an support the great friend of the bishops.”